The Willis Weekly
April 19, 2019
Last Study Trip of the Year...Flat Fork Creek Park!
Our last trip to Flat Fork Creek Park is scheduled for next Thursday, April 25! All who have background checks on file are welcome to join us on this trip. Please email me ASAP if you'd like to attend this study trip with us. I appreciate your help! The following parents have committed to supporting us during this event:
Jamie C.
Alex R.
Aris K.
Meghana N.
Our tentative itenereary is as follows:
10:30Board buses at TCE
10:45Arrive at Flat Fork Creek Park
Go over expectations with students and chaperones & form groups
11:00-1:00Lunch/Exploring Flat Fork Creek Park
Feel free to eat lunch wherever & whenever your group is hungry!
1:00Begin heading back to buses
1:15Depart Flat Fork Creek Park
Pennies for Patients Fundraising Campaign
Hello Thorpe Creek Families!
Student Council will be collecting donations for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society from April 18-25th through our Pennies for Patients fundraiser! If you would like to learn more about where our donations are going, check out this video: https://youtu.be/8PluE1SoNmw
All students will bring home a small box to collect their donations in and bring back to school any time between now and April 25th. There is also an option to donate online at this website: http://events.lls.org/pages/in/ThorpeCreekElementarySchool-2019
To celebrate the start of our campaign, we will have a hat day on Friday, April 19th!! All students may wear hats to school that day and are encouraged to donate $1.
We are looking forward to seeing what a difference our “Thorpe Creek Squad” can make in the lives of so many superheroes!
Sincerely,
TCE Student Council
Reusable Containers
Hi TCE Cardinals!
Did you know that bringing reusable containers for your daily snack and in your lunchbox is better than using plastic baggies? We have learned that plastic
baggies take 500-1,000 years to decompose. We are recycling the plastic baggies, but bringing a reusable container is better for the Earth! Try to use more
reusable containers than plastic baggies.
Thank you for helping us change the world by reducing one plastic baggie at a time!
Mrs. Gibson's First Grade Class
Link to Mr. Willis's Pennies for Patient website
Mark Your Calendar!
April 25 - Flat Fork Creek study trip
May17 - Field Day
May 22 - Student Choice Day
May 24 - Last day of school
*Just a reminder that we have early dismissal every Monday so that our teachers can continue their learning.
Background Checks & Anti-Bullying Video
Related Arts Schedule for Next Week!
Monday, April 22: Day 4: Art
Tuesday, April 23: Day 1: P.E.
Wednesday, April 24: Day 2: Global Study
Thursday, April 25: Day 3: Music & Library
Friday, April 26: Day 4: Art
We are Learning
Reading
This week, students were hard at work working on different ways to modify, or change, nouns with adjectives. Students were encouraged to find these modifications in their reading. Ask your child to identify an adjective, or word that describes a noun, in your reading this weekend.
Writing
Math
This week, we learned about more attributes of shapes and equipped ourselves with strategies for subtraction. We now have a better understanding of how we can identify a shape without having seen it, but by acknowledging the amount of vertices, or corners, and sides it possesses. Regarding subtraction strategies, we have equipped ourselves with knowing how to subtract, or take away, from numbers using a number grid and the Base 10 strategy. We encourage you to check our Seesaw account to learn more about how we use these strategies to find the difference between subtrahends and minuends.
Mr. C. Willis
Email: cwillis@hse.k12.in.us
Location: 14642 East 126th Street, Fishers, IN, USA
Phone: (317) 594-4310 (2205)
Twitter: @TCEWillis